Our little family has recently spent our leisure time going to see a variety of animals. We started out at the zoo. Ellie was pretty nervous about the elephants at first, but she was completely fascinated.
She warmed up to the elephants, and has showed a marked interest in them in her books. We also saw a bird show and a few other animals. Unfortunately our trip got cut short because of the random thunderstorm that hit. We did try to wait it out, but that pavilion was just not enough shelter after an hour or so.
It was a lot of fun to spend time with friends and family though. What cute girlies!
We also visited Thanksgiving Point a couple of times on their two dollar Tuesday deal. I was excited to take Ellie's picture with the animals she knows from her books. It didn't really go according to plan.
The baby chicks weren't too bad though.
As part of the deal, there is a pony ride. Needless to say that if riding the plastic animals was met with hysterics, sitting on a live one didn't thrill her.
One week later, we tried the pony ride again. This is how it ended up.
She was more confident around the other animals the second time around.
We also went to the dinosaur museum. I had never been before, and it was a lot bigger than I expected. It was really cool, and Ellie actually enjoyed it a lot. She loved running around in there with throngs of people.
There were so many fun activities for kids. It was geared for a little older than Ellie, but still fun. So over all, Ellie's favorite way of looking at animals is in books, but fossils aren't too bad either.
Check out this awesome outfit.
One day I walked in to see that she had put my pajama shorts on her head. I have a lot of pictures of her trying to grab the camera.
One of her favorite activities during the day is to listen to the Wee Sing baby songs. She loves to spin in circles and wave her arms. Of course the video won't load
This is attempt number three for her to feed herself with a spoon. I don't know if she is learning how to use the spoon or not, but we learned that she can now reach the counters. A few minutes after getting cleaned up from this we saw that she had taken the left overs off the counter and and taken it all over the house. Yogurt was everywhere! It was mostly on the carpet and on the doors. She really likes to knock on all the doors in the house. Turns out we need to investigate what's going on when Ellie isn't being noisy or demanding.
It is hard to get Ellie to stop moving when I get the camera out. She gets so excited.
She is hopefully learning that balloons get popped this way.
Ellie likes to walk around in my shoes. I love it!
I love her blue eyes. She looks so innocent. You wouldn't believe that right before I took this picture she grabbed a whole stack of books and dumped them on herself.
Some of her other favorites are: going eye-y-eye (outside), reading stories, and doing her shape ball. She also loves climbing on a dow (chair), turning on and off the light, and identifying people from the screen saver on our computer. Ellie loves the songs: wheels on the bus, popcorn popping, and this little piggy. She has her own versions of all of the actions, which are pretty cute. I think it is funny that her action for the wheels going round and round has become what she does when she wants to sing. Lastly, but definitely not least she LOVES starfall.com. She calls it 'B,' and every time we get on the computer she asks for it. Although since we have let her look at it about once a day, she has started to recognize when she sees letters and points them out on our shirts.
